Crossword Puzzle Number 2490 (Small Grid)

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ACROSS

1. A doctor's degree in dental surgery.
4. Lower in esteem.
9. Type genus of the family Unionidae.
13. Mythical bird of prey having enormous size and strength.
14. United States film actress (born in Sweden) known for her reclusiveness (1905-1990).
15. (Babylonian) God of wisdom and agriculture and patron of scribes and schools.
16. Any customary and rightful perquisite appropriate to your station in life.
18. In or of the present month.
19. Being or befitting or characteristic of an infant.
20. East Indian tree bearing a profusion of intense vermilion velvet-textured blooms and yielding a yellow dye.
23. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
24. A game in which numbered balls are drawn and random and players cover the corresponding numbers on their cards.
25. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
28. A light touch or stroke.
30. Wild sheep of northern Africa.
31. Used as a Hindi courtesy title.
35. How long something has existed.
36. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
42. The fifth month of the Hindu calendar.
47. A condition (mostly in boys) characterized by behavioral and learning disorders.
48. Light informal conversation for social occasions.
49. Long green edible beaked pods of the okra plant.
53. Submerged aquatic plant having narrow leaves and small flowers.
55. A color varying around light grayish brown.
58. An associate degree in applied science.
59. The month following March and preceding May.
60. An oral cephalosporin (trade names Keflex and Keflin and Keftab) commonly prescribe for mild to moderately severe infections of the skin or ears or throat or lungs or urinary tract.
62. A hormone secreted by the anterior pituitary gland that controls the degree of pigmentation in melanocytes.
63. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
64. English Catholic novelist (1904-1991).
65. Any of various primates with short tails or no tail at all.

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1. Lacking in liveliness or charm or surprise.
2. Amino acid that is formed in the liver and converted into dopamine in the brain.
3. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
4. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
5. Capital and largest city of Iraq.
6. A particular geographical region of indefinite boundary (usually serving some special purpose or distinguished by its people or culture or geography).
7. A metallic element having four allotropic forms.
8. The longest division of geological time.
9. An agency of the United Nations responsible for programs to aid education and the health of children and mothers in developing countries.
10. Wife of Balder.
11. Realistic Norwegian author who wrote plays on social and political themes (1828-1906).
12. Be or do something to a greater degree.
17. City in Sudan.
21. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
22. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
26. The month following July and preceding September.
27. A sweetened beverage of diluted fruit juice.
29. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
32. The longer of the two telegraphic signals used in Morse code.
33. Liquid excretory product.
34. Imperial dynasty that ruled China (most of the time) from 206 BC to 221 and expanded its boundaries and developed its bureaucracy.
37. The United Nations agency concerned with civil aviation.
38. An informal term for a father.
39. An associate degree in nursing.
40. The eleventh month of the civil year.
41. The branch of computer science that deal with writing computer programs that can solve problems creatively.
43. (Babylonian) A demigod or first man.
44. Sound of something in rapid motion.
45. A socially awkward or tactless act.
46. Make less active or intense.
50. God of love and erotic desire.
51. Uttering in an irritated tone.
52. United States tennis player who was the first Black to win United States and English singles championships (1943-1993).
54. 10 grams.
55. A public promotion of some product or service.
56. (of light) Lacking in intensity or brightness.
57. The compass point that is one point east (clockwise) of due north.
61. A trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group.

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